How to Use mitosis in a Sentence

mitosis

noun

• So the researchers have a list of 600 or so mitosis genes.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2010
• Clearly, mitosis already has all the makings of a good drama.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2010
• Cell mitosis takes place over three to five days, as your zygote makes its way through your fallopian tube.
  — ​wendy Wisner, Parents, 18 Nov. 2023
• Why was the science teacher hesitant to give a lecture on mitosis?
  — Corinne Sullivan, Woman's Day, 20 May 2022
• When a cell replicates, a process called mitosis, the genetic material of the cell needs to be duplicated.
  — Carolyn Graybeal, Discover Magazine, 8 Sep. 2014
• But that messiness poses a problem during mitosis, when the cell has to make a copy of its genetic material and divide in two.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 Feb. 2018
• In another, a flower girl splits in two, like a cell undergoing mitosis.
  — David Pagel, latimes.com, 14 Aug. 2017
• The floating ball vibrated a little each time one of its cells completed mitosis, splitting from one cell into two daughter cells.
  — Amos Zeeberg (discover Web Editor), Discover Magazine, 15 July 2010
• From live-action films of mitosis to the workings of individual organelles, the future of cellular imaging is a wriggling mass of 3-D footage.
  — Patrick Morgan, Discover Magazine, 8 Mar. 2011
• Ear Taxi’s sophomore edition comprised dozens of world premieres, some 600 artists, and more than a hundred performances — much of which was streamed for live and post-concert viewing, no mitosis necessary.
  — Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com, 6 Oct. 2021
• So far, all of the cells, from stem cells to spermatozoa, divided by mitosis, a kind of cell division that creates two new cells, both identical to the original, with a 23 pairs of chromosomes.
  — K. N. Smith, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2016
• Which leads to another problem: With 1,000 casinos in existence and more coming all the time, not only are there too many competitors entering the market, but the sites already up and running are prone to mitosis.
  — Mark Schone, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2000
• In another form of parthenogenesis, apomixis, reproductive cells replicate via mitosis, a process in which the cell duplicates to create two diploid cells—a kind of genetic copy-and-paste.
  — Corryn Wetzel, National Geographic, 25 Aug. 2020
• These critters have a gestation time measured in minutes — a real challenge for mitosis but an advantage in avoiding tiresome delays in the storyline.
  — Seth Shostak, NBC News, 22 May 2017
• Winner, winner = porchetta dinner as last year’s Critic’s Choice winner has undergone culinary mitosis — and a bit of evolution.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2023
• In line with previous studies, Simões et al. found that after inflicting brain injuries, neural stem cells commonly expressed markers of mitosis.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• The researchers focused on an important part of cell division, or mitosis, during which two daughter cells created through cell division are placed in the proper orientation within the tissue.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 12 Jan. 2016
• My sons’ high-school biology classes spent more time designing a model recycling center than teaching mitosis and meiosis.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2022
• Microtubules are a key element of eukaryotic cells that are critical for mitosis, cell motility, transport within cells, and maintaining cell shape.
  — Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2022
• This sort of movement-mitosis appears to be an essential element in the natural physiology of social justice campaigns.
  — Elaine Weiss, Time, 6 Mar. 2018
• For a daily and microscopic process, mitosis is an astonishingly beautiful dance.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2010
• In apomixis, reproductive cells replicate using mitosis, forming genetically identical offspring.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 20 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 1 Sep 2024